Seven Summers An Eton Medley (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Seven Summers: An Eton Medley To the future Etonian who would fain know something of the Land of Promise: to the present Etonian who is unaccountably ready to read whatever other present Etonians are so rash as to write to the Old Etonian who cannot but take some interest in the sayings and doings Of his successors to the Mothers of Etonians, past, present, and future, Whose sisterly love for the kindly mother of us all is as warm as that of any of her sons to all who lately watched with friendly eyes the brief but happy career of a certain parachute whose battered framework now lies rusting somewhere in the Limbo of Forgotten Publications: to all these a book which is the work of Eton boys may be Offered in the certainty that they will require no Preface, and that if a Preface be set before them not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.